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Joyce & Jung offers a uniquely feminist poststructuralist and post-Jungian psychoanalytic analysis of Stephen Dedalus's psychosexual growth in James Joyce's twentieth-century classic A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Hiromi Yoshida relocates Stephen's growth within the Jungian soul-portrait gallery, known as the "four stages of eroticism," in which Eve, Helen, Mary, and Sophia are collective anima projections. Throughout this dazzling lyrical analysis of poetic identity formation, the mother, the prostitute, the Virgin Mary, and the Bird-Girl are celebrated as Stephen Dedalus's ironically experienced anima women, who enable his achievement of cross-dressed lyric authority.
List of contents
List of Tables - List of Illustrations - Foreword to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Mother: Baby Tuckoo's Encounter with the Hermaphrodite of Infant Consciousness - The Prostitute: The "Obscene Scrawl" of Stephen Foetus - The Virgin: Saint Stephen's Temptation at the "Breast of the Infants" - The Bird- Girl: Stephen Mercurius and the Flight to Daedalus - A Portrait: Stephen's Annunciation, or the Artist's Cross-Dressed Soul - Afterword - Bibliography - Index.
About the author
Hiromi Yoshida is an independent literary scholar and a poet. She has taught for the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Indiana University Bloomington. Her scholarly interests include James Joyce, Sylvia Plath, the Beat Generation, the psychoanalysis of gender and race, and poststructuralist poetics. Her literary criticism has been published in
Plath Profiles, and she has authored three poetry chapbooks,
Icarus Burning,
Epicanthus, and
Icarus Redux.
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"Hiromi Yoshida's innovative approach to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man demonstrates how Joyce's Stephen Dedalus reaches a heightened state of creativity through his gradual integration of feminine elements into his psyche. Her detailed afterword to the new edition of Joyce & Jung adds lucid insights to this important critical study."-Nancy Bombaci, Associate Professor of Writing and Literature, Mitchell College, New London, Connecticut
